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• It is quite possible that someone is insane and they think they have a chance. Not insane in the clinical sense, but they may have such a strong political ambition that they blind themselves to reality.

  Davy Crockett

  Strong, Ambition, Reality

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• Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.

  Eden Phillpotts

  Faith, Insanity, Mind

  Eden Phillpotts (1918). “A Shadow Passes”

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• The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other. That's not hard to do even when you're juggling insane careers and three kids.

  Michael Ian Black

  Thank You, Appreciation, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had been on this insane diet for almost 17 years to maintain the weight that was demanded of me when I was modeling. My diet was really starvation. I am not naturally that thin.

  Carre Otis

  Years, Anorexia, Weight

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• Hey everybody, this is Rob Halford from Fight wishing you all a crazy heavy metal Christmas and an insane, wild manic New Year!

  Rob Halford

  New Year, Crazy, Fighting

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• Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the way of material possessions. On the other hand, people who work hard and struggle and suffer much are the victims of greed and indifference, losers. This insane reversal of values presses heavily on the Black community. The causes originate from outside and are imposed by a system that ruthlessly seeks its own rewards, no matter what the cost in wrecked human lives.

  Huey Newton

  Good Life, Struggle, Hard Work

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• If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face...

  Zack de la Rocha

  Humorous, Ignorance, Profound

  "Song: Settle for nothing (Rage Against The Machine)". November 3, 1992.

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• The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?

  Larry Ellison

  Fashion, Talking, Ideas

  "Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman" by Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2008.

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• Stories come from violence, they come from sex. They come from death. They come from the dark places that everyone has to go to, kind of wants to, or doesn't, but needs to deal with. If you raise a kid to think everything is sunshine and flowers, they're going to get into the real world and die. That's the reason fairy tales are so creepy, because we need to encapsulate these things, to inoculate ourselves against them, so that when we're confronted by the genuine horror that is day-to-day life we don't go insane.

  Joss Whedon

  Sex, Real, Flower

  "Joss Whedon: Conversations". Book by Cynthia Burkhead, March 29, 2011.

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• The fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Sex, Thinking, Issues

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

  Robert Hugh Benson

  Thinking, Desire, Bangs

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• Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist...and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell like (must I take you by the hand, every so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resoundingbells....By my faith if this be insanity, then for the love of God permit me to remain insane.

  Robert Hunter

  Morning, Fall, Blood

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• I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

  Dorothea Dix

  Insane Person, Gentleman, Cages

  Dorothea Lynde Dix (1843). “Memorial: To the Legislature of Massachusetts [protesting Against the Confinement of Insane Persons and Idiots in Almshouses and Prisons]”, p.4

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• As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.

  John Millington Synge

  Children, Writing, Men

  Draft of a preface in "Notebook 16". "The Collected Works of J.M. Synge", Volume 1. Introduction, 1962.

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• How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them; no question of mood and feeling; they have just to work at something, and when the evening comes, they have earned their wages, and they are free to rest and enjoy themselves. What an insane thing it is to make literature one's only means of support! When the most trivial accident may at any time prove fatal to one's power of work for weeks or months. No, that is the unpardonable sin! To make a trade of an art! I am rightly served for attempting such a brutal folly.

  George Gissing

  Art, Morning, Mean

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• Life is too serious to be taken seriously.

  Mike Leonard

  Life, Humorous, Taken

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.

  Tom Lehrer

  Humorous, Profound, Preparation

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• The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapor, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king.

  Johann Joachim Becher

  Change, Kings, Flames

  "Physica subterranea". Book by Johann Joachim Becher, 1669.

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• I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts
  because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace.
  “If I feel peaceful,” they say, “why would I bother taking action at all?”
  My answer is “Because that's what love does.”
  To think that we need sadness or outrage
  to motivate us to do what's right is insane.
  As if the clearer and happier you get, the less kind you become.
  As if when someone finds freedom, she just sits around all day
  with drool running down her chin.
  My experience is the opposite.
  Love is action.

  Byron Katie

  Running, Sadness, Love Is

  "Loving Without Exception". Omega Interview, www.eomega.org. March 18, 2015.

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• Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But what history really shows is that today`s empire is tomorrow`s ashes, that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Believe, Fighting, Exercise

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• The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Desire, Getting High, Life Is

  Letter "to a leading editor" on April 10, 1875. "The Life Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes", edited by James Quay Howard, ch. X, p. 144, www.gutenberg.org. 2007.

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• Once the pain-body has taken you over, you want more pain. You become a victim or a perpetrator. You want to inflict pain, or you want to suffer pain, or both. There isn't really much difference between the two. You are not conscious of this, of course, and will vehemently claim that you do not want pain. But look closely and you will find that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others. If you were truly conscious of it, the pattern would dissolve, for to want more pain is insanity, and nobody is consciously insane.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Taken, Thinking

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.38, New World Library

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• The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Love Is, And Love

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• Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

  Hermann Broch

  Mad, Gone

  Hermann Broch (2011). “The Sleepwalkers”, p.483, Vintage

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• Only the insane equate pain with success.

  American McGee

  Pain, Uninformed

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